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Philoponus : on Aristotle posterior analytics 1.9-18 /
In this part of the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle elaborates his assessment of how universal truths of science can be scientifically explained as inevitable in demonstrative proofs. But he introduces complications: some sciences discuss phenomena that can only be explained by higher sciences and ag...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2012.
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| Colección: | Ancient commentators on Aristotle.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this part of the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle elaborates his assessment of how universal truths of science can be scientifically explained as inevitable in demonstrative proofs. But he introduces complications: some sciences discuss phenomena that can only be explained by higher sciences and again sometimes we reason out a cause from an effect, rather than an effect from a cause. Philoponus takes these issues further. Reasoning from particular to universal is the direction taken by induction, and in mathematics reasoning from a theorem to the higher principles from which it follows is co. |
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| Notas: | "Paperback edition first published 2014"--Title page verso |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (206 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781472500366 1472500369 0715640895 9780715640890 1472557972 9781472557971 |